Regpack
May 20, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In July 2016, a tweet was posted with a link to an alleged data breach of BlueSnap, a global payment gateway and merchant account provider. The data contained 324k payment records across 105k unique email addresses and included personal attributes such as name, home address and phone number. The data was verified with multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers who confirmed it also contained valid transactions, partial credit card numbers, expiry dates and CVVs. A downstream consumer of BlueSnap services known as Regpack was subsequently identified as the source of the data after they identified human error had left the transactions exposed on a publicly facing server. A full investigation of the data and statement by Regpack is detailed in the post titled Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs.
GoldSilver
October 21, 2018
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it remained months later. When notified about the incident, GoldSilver advised that "all affected customers have been directly notified".
PayHere
March 27, 2022
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In late March 2022, the Sri Lankan payment gateway PayHere suffered a data breach that exposed more than 65GB of payment records including over 1.5M unique email addresses. The data also included IP and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, purchase histories and partially obfuscated credit card data (card type, first 6 and last 4 digits plus expiry date). A month later, PayHere published a blog on the incident titled Ensuring Integrity on PayHere Cybersecurity Incident.
Money Bookers
January 1, 2009
•[ leak, finance ]
Sometime in 2009, the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed almost 4.5M customers. Now called Skrill, the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and IP addresses.
MyFHA
February 18, 2015
•[ leak, finance ]
In approximately February 2015, the home financing website MyFHA suffered a data breach which disclosed the personal information of nearly 1 million people. The data included extensive personal information relating to home financing including personal contact info, credit statuses, household incomes, loan amounts and notes on personal circumstances, often referring to legal issues, divorces and health conditions. Multiple parties contacted HIBP with the data after which MyFHA was alerted in mid-July and acknowledged the legitimacy of the breach then took the site offline.
Atlas Quantum
August 25, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
In August 2018, the cryptocurrency investment platform Atlas Quantum suffered a data breach. The breach leaked the personal data of 261k investors on the platform including their names, phone numbers, email addresses and account balances.
Capital Economics
December 12, 2020
•[ leak, finance ]
In December 2020, the economic research company Capital Economics suffered a data breach that exposed 263k customer records. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, job titles and the employer of impacted customers.
BTC-E
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
In October 2014, the Bitcoin exchange BTC-E was hacked and 568k accounts were exposed. The data included email and IP addresses, wallet balances and hashed passwords.
Kreditplus
June 23, 2020
•[ leak, finance ]
In June 2020, the Indonesian credit service Kreditplus suffered a data breach which exposed 896k records containing 769k unique email addresses. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, family makeup, information on spouses, income and expenses, religions and employment information. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw.
Master Deeds
March 14, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In March 2017, a 27GB database backup file named "Master Deeds" was sent to HIBP by a supporter of the project. Upon detailed analysis later that year, the file was found to contain the personal data of tens of millions of living and deceased South African residents. The data included extensive personal attributes such as names, addresses, ethnicities, genders, birth dates, government issued personal identification numbers and 2.2 million email addresses. At the time of publishing, it's alleged the data was sourced from Dracore Data Sciences (Dracore is yet to publicly confirm or deny the data was sourced from their systems). On 18 October 2017, the file was found to have been published to a publicly accessible web server where it was located at the root of an IP address with directory listing enabled. The file was dated 8 April 2015.
Zacks (2024)
June 22, 2024
•[ leak, finance ]
In June 2024, the investment research company Zacks was allegedly breached, and data was later published to a popular hacking forum. This comes after a separate Zacks data breach confirmed by the organisation in 2023 with the subsequent breach disclosing millions of additional records representing a superset of data from the first incident. The 2024 breach included 12M unique email addresses along with IP and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers and unsalted SHA-256 password hashes. Zacks did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the incident.
Neteller
May 17, 2010
•[ leak, finance ]
In May 2010, the e-wallet service known as Neteller suffered a data breach which exposed over 3.6M customers. The breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and account balances.
Yonéma
November 21, 2024
•[ leak, finance ]
In November 2024, data from the Senegalese payment platform Yonma was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 36k unique email addresses alongside phone numbers, names and what appears to be encrypted passwords and dates of birth.
CoinTracker
December 1, 2022
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In December 2022, the Crypto & NFT taxes service CoinTracker reported a data breach that impacted over 1.5M of their customers. The company later attributed the breach to a compromise SendGrid in an attack that targeted multiple customers of the email provider. The breach exposed email addresses and partially redacted phone numbers, with CoinTracker advising that the later did not originate from their service.
Real Estate Mogul
September 6, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2016, the real estate investment site Real Estate Mogul had a Mongo DB instance compromised and 5GB of data downloaded by an unauthorised party. The data contained real estate listings including addresses and the names, phone numbers and 308k unique email addresses of the sellers. Real Estate Mogul was advised of the incident in September 2018 and stated that they "found no instance of user account credentials like usernames and passwords nor billing information within this file".
Carding Mafia (December 2021)
December 28, 2021
•[ leak, finance ]
In December 2021, the Carding Mafia forum suffered a data breach that exposed over 300k members' email addresses. Dedicated to the theft and trading of stolen credit cards, the forum breach also exposed usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. This breach came only 9 months after another breach of the forum in March 2021.
Experian (2015)
September 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2015, the US based credit bureau and consumer data broker Experian suffered a data breach that impacted 15 million customers who had applied for financing from T-Mobile. An alleged data breach was subsequently circulated containing personal information including names, physical and email addresses, birth dates and various other personal attributes. Multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers verified portions of the data as being accurate, but the actual source of it was inconclusive therefor this breach has been flagged as "unverified".
Mastercard Priceless Specials
August 20, 2019
•[ leak, finance ]
In August 2019, the German Mastercard bonus program "Priceless Specials" suffered a data breach. Personal data on almost 90k program members was subsequently extensively circulated online and included names, email and IP addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card data. Following the incident, the program was subsequently suspended.
Robinhood
November 3, 2021
•[ social, finance ]
In November 2021, the online trading platform Robinhood suffered a data breach after a customer service representative was socially engineered. The incident exposed over 5M customer email addresses and 2M customer names. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "Jarand Moen Romtviet".
Finsure
October 15, 2024
•[ leak, misconfiguration, finance ]
In October 2024, almost 300k unique email addresses from Australian mortgage broking group Finsure were obtained from the ActivePipe real estate marketing platform. The impacted data also included names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The incident did not directly affect any of Finsure's systems or expose any passwords or financial data.
